See below an algorithmically curated selection of under-the-radar startups demonstrating quantifiable momentum via third-party metrics. This super-sized edition focuses on early stage software companies with demonstrable open-source traction (Github engagement)

Chatwoot

Company: Chatwoot
Country (Operating): 2035, Sunset Lake Road, Suite B-2, Newark, New Castle, DE 19702, United States
Founded Date: January 01, 2017
Homepage: http://chatwoot.com
Current Headcount: 9
Lifetime Funding: $1,780,000
Number of Funding Rounds: 2
Investors: Uncorrelated Ventures, Y Combinator, Goat Capital, Hack VC
Most Recent Funding: SEED - August 09, 2021
Sectors: Launch, Saas
Description: New age multi-channel customer support solution for businesses, big and small.

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Appwrite

Company: Appwrite
Country (Operating): Tel Aviv, Israel
Founded Date: January 01, 2019
Homepage: https://appwrite.io
Current Headcount: 25
Lifetime Funding: $10,000,000
Number of Funding Rounds: 2
Investors: Seedcamp, Bessemer Venture Partners, Ibex Investors, Flybridge, James Lindenbaum, Aaron Applbaum, Uri Boness
Most Recent Funding: SEED - September 28, 2021
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Description: Appwrite cuts up to 70% of the time and costs required for building a modern application. We abstract and simplify common development tasks to help you grow your business in a fast and secure way.

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Ultralytics

Company: Ultralytics
Country (Operating): Los Angeles, California, United States
Founded Date: January 01, 2014
Homepage: https://ultralytics.com
Current Headcount: 10
Lifetime Funding: $0
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Sectors: Ai / Ml, Data Analytics
Description: We are Ultralytics and we’re here on a mission to make AI easy. Through simplified data sourcing, labeling, model training, and deployment, anyone can get started with Ultralytics and enjoy the wonders of artificial intelligence, including yourself. We’ve been surfing the AI landscape since 2014, working with the US Intelligence Community (IC) and Department of Defence initiatives (DoD) in the fields of particle physics, data science, and artificial intelligence. It’s been a remarkable journey but we’re just getting started. The doors are open for you to enter the exciting world of artificial intelligence, and it all begins at Ultralytics. Sign up for early Ultralytics HUB access: https://bit.ly/3fpq8S7 Check out our repo: https://bit.ly/3IpbBCz Connect with us Product Hunt: https://bit.ly/3fqzGwc

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Pyroscope

Company: Pyroscope
Country (Operating): Oakland, CA, United States
Founded Date: January 01, 2020
Homepage: https://pyroscope.io
Current Headcount: 6
Lifetime Funding: $125,000
Number of Funding Rounds: 1
Investors: SV Angel, Y Combinator, Accion Opportunity Fund
Most Recent Funding: SEED - March 22, 2021
Sectors: Software / Hardware Monitoring Tools, Oss
Description: We’re building open source continuous profiling software to help you find bottlenecks in your code. Check it out at https://pyroscope.io/

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Fleet Device Management Inc

Company: Fleet Device Management Inc
Country (Operating): 548 Market Street, Private Mailbox 71434, San Francisco, CA 94104-5401, United States
Founded Date: January 01, 2020
Homepage: https://fleetdm.com
Current Headcount: 19
Lifetime Funding: $7,000,000
Number of Funding Rounds: 2
Investors: CRV, Greg Martin, Open Core Ventures LLC, Jack Naglieri, Sid Sijbrandij, Ezra Olubi, NULL, Mike Arpaia
Most Recent Funding: SEED - January 20, 2022
Sectors: Security / Encryption Tech, Cybersecurity
Description: Fleet is building extensible software for wrangling and monitoring servers, containers, and laptops. Organizations large and small use osquery with Fleet every day to stay secure and compliant. That’s good news, since it means there are lots of other developers and security practitioners talking about Fleet, dreaming up features, and contributing patches. Let’s stop reinventing the wheel and build the future of device management together.

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Redpanda Data

Company: Redpanda Data
Country (Operating): 5758 Geary Boulevard, Suite 153, San Francisco, CA 94121, United States
Founded Date: January 01, 2019
Homepage: https://redpanda.com
Current Headcount: 59
Lifetime Funding: $15,500,000
Number of Funding Rounds: 2
Investors: Haystack, GV, Lightspeed Venture Partners
Most Recent Funding: SERIES A - January 26, 2021
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Description: [formerly Vectorized.io] Redpanda is a modern streaming data platform for mission-critical workloads. Kafka API compatible. Safe by default. 10X faster.

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WhyLabs

Company: WhyLabs
Country (Operating): 2157 North Northlake Way, Suite 110, Seattle, WA 98103, United States
Founded Date: January 01, 2019
Homepage: https://whylabs.ai
Current Headcount: 19
Lifetime Funding: $14,000,000
Number of Funding Rounds: 2
Investors: Bain, AI Fund, Bezos Expeditions, Ascend.vc, defy.vc, Allen Institute for AI (AI2), Madrona Venture Group
Most Recent Funding: SERIES A - November 04, 2021
Sectors: Software / Hardware Monitoring Tools, Ai / Ml, Cloud Infrastructure, Saas, Dev Tools
Description: At WhyLabs, we have our eyes set on an ambitious goal: to build the interface between humans and AI applications. We are starting with AI Observability. As teams across industries adopt AI, our Platform enables them to operate with certainty by providing model monitoring, preventing costly model failures, and facilitating cross-functional collaboration. WhyLabs was started at the Allen Institute for AI by Amazon Machine Learning alums Alessya Visnjic, Sam Gracie, and Andy Dang, together with Maria Karaivanova, former Cloudflare executive. We are privately-held, venture-funded company based in Seattle. Use WhyLabs to supercharge your AI teams! To learn how, visit www.whylabs.ai, follow us on Twitter (@whylabs) or join the our Community on Slack (http://join.slack.whylabs.ai). Want to take it to the next level? Check out our Github libraries, we love feedback & stars: https://github.com/whylabs

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Gitpod

Company: Gitpod
Country (Operating): Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
Founded Date: April 01, 2019
Homepage: https://gitpod.io
Current Headcount: 41
Lifetime Funding: $13,000,000
Number of Funding Rounds: 1
Investors: Speedinvest, Crane Venture Partners, Kinled Holding Ltd, General Catalyst, Vertex Ventures, Vertex US, Hanno Renner, Ameet Patel
Most Recent Funding: SERIES UNKNOWN - April 07, 2021
Sectors: Oss, Dev Tools
Description: Gitpod is an open source developer platform automating the provisioning of ready-to-code development environments. We free engineering teams from the friction of manually setting-up local dev environments, saving dozens of hours and enabling a new level of collaboration to create applications much more quickly than ever before.

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Grapl Inc.

Company: Grapl Inc.
Country (Operating): 351 King Street, Unit 422, San Francisco, CA 94158, United States
Founded Date: January 01, 2020
Homepage: http://graplsecurity.com
Current Headcount: 6
Lifetime Funding: $2,000,000
Number of Funding Rounds: 1
Investors: Undisclosed
Most Recent Funding: SEED - March 20, 2020
Sectors: Security / Encryption Tech, Cybersecurity
Description: Grapl is a cyber-security solution that leverages a powerful graph-based approach to accelerate your security teams ability to detect and respond to attackers in your network. Grapl combines the power of Python and graphs to allow your security teams to express the even most complex attacker behaviors efficiently and effectively. By pulling out an enriched graph from your low-level logging instrumentation, Grapl allows you to work with data that more accurately represents the state of your environment. With Grapl, detection engineers and incident responders can focus on what matters, understanding and expressing compromises in your network.

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Airbyte

Company: Airbyte
Country (Operating): 2261 Market Street, Suite 4381, San Francisco, CA 94121, United States
Founded Date: January 01, 2020
Homepage: https://airbyte.com
Current Headcount: 40
Lifetime Funding: $181,200,000
Number of Funding Rounds: 4
Investors: Benchmark, Rebel Fund, SV Angel, Coatue Management, Altimeter Capital, Kima Ventures, Flex Capital, Accel, Thrive Capital, Auren Hoffman, Salesforce Ventures, Y Combinator, 8VC, overtime.vc, Ihar Mahaniok, Calvin French-Owen, Auren Hoffman 📚, Travis May, Alain Rossmann, Guillaume “𝑮” Cabane, Dev Ittycheria, Eric Chernoff, Charles Zedlewski, NULL
Most Recent Funding: SERIES B - December 17, 2021
Sectors: Oss, Dev Tools
Description: Airbyte is the new open-source data integration platform that syncs data from applications, APIs & databases to data warehouses, lakes and other destinations.

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ProjectDiscovery.io

Company: ProjectDiscovery.io
Country (Operating): 548 Market Street, San Francisco, CA 94104, United States
Founded Date: January 01, 2020
Homepage: https://projectdiscovery.io
Current Headcount: 15
Lifetime Funding: $1,700,000
Number of Funding Rounds: 2
Investors: Rain Capital, Accel, SignalFire, Essence Venture Capital, Gerhard Eschelbeck, Caleb Sima
Most Recent Funding: EARLY STAGE VC - November 01, 2021
Sectors: Security / Encryption Tech, Cybersecurity, Dev Tools
Description: We’re building the best next-generation tools for security professionals.

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Tailscale

Company: Tailscale
Country (Operating): 50 Lynn Williams Street, Unit 401, Toronto, Ontario M6K 3R9, Canada
Founded Date: January 01, 2019
Homepage: https://tailscale.com
Current Headcount: 30
Lifetime Funding: $15,000,000
Number of Funding Rounds: 3
Investors: Heavybit, Accel, Uncork Capital, Inovia Capital, Zag Capital, Edith Harbaugh
Most Recent Funding: SERIES A - November 10, 2020
Sectors: Security / Encryption Tech, Cybersecurity
Description: For teams who want secure, private networks without weeks of setup and configuration, Tailscale makes it easy. Unlike existing corporate VPNs, Tailscale has no upfront cost, minimal latency, and works with their existing services.

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n8n.io

Company: n8n.io
Country (Operating): Borsigstr. 27, 10115 Berlin, Germany
Founded Date: January 01, 2019
Homepage: https://n8n.io
Current Headcount: 31
Lifetime Funding: $13,500,000
Number of Funding Rounds: 2
Investors: Harpoon, Tiny VC, System.One, Runa Capital, Felicis Ventures, Harpoon Ventures, Daniel Liem, Ilkka Paananen, firstminute capital, Nan Li, Sequoia Capital, Kevin Hartz, Daniel C. Liem
Most Recent Funding: SERIES A - April 26, 2021
Sectors: Saas, Dev Tools
Description: Free, open and self-hostable workflow automation tool. n8n is the leading low-code automation tool, enabling you to connect anything to everything. With n8n, for the first time, people can move beyond simple integrations to build multi-step workflows that combine both 3rd party APIs and your own internal tools to create easy-to-use automations. Thanks to its fair-code distribution model, n8n will always have visible source code, be available to self-host, and allow you to add your own custom functions, logic, and apps. n8n is supported by a fast-growing and passionate community of thousands of people building a powerful and extendable workflow automation tool. n8n is privately held, with funding from Sequoia, Felicis Ventures, Firstminute Capital, Harpoon Ventures, and others. Individual investors include Eventbrite’s Kevin Hartz and Supercell’s IIkka Paananen. n8n was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Berlin.

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